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Without looking closely at the software available at the various repos, I'd hazard a guess that EPEL is clashing with RHEL. If you really need PHP 5.3, well that is tough...especially as this is a production server. Do you not have another system that you can configure similarly and then test on?

Also, can you show the command(s) you are using to perform the attempted PHP install?